View of small dhows (sailboats) ... Size:small

View of small dhows (sailboats) ... Size:smallView of small dhows (sailboats) and other small craft beached along the shore at the harbour in Kuwait City. Small children play in the water between the boats. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

resting in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

wearing European clothing

one standing

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through dunes in the Al Batin sands

Women and a child sit inside the left section of the tent

His right hand is in his lap

Beyond the salt flat a high dune massif with deeply ridged slopes rises along the horizon

In the near right foreground a lifeboat filled with sails and rigging sits on the deck of the dhow

the corner of which can be seen on the right

past the one and two storey houses lining the shore

wind-rippled dune entirely bare of vegetation

One of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions leads a camel down the slope of a sand dune